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Part VI of Multi-part COOL Series: R-CALF USA Urges Aggressive Appeal of WTO’s Anti-COOL Ruling 

January 30, 2012 Billings, Mont. – The 14 specific examples contained in Parts I through V of R-CALF USA’s multi-part country of origin labeling (COOL) series demonstrate that the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) attack on the U.S. country of origin labeling (COOL) law is not only unfounded, but also, sinister. Through its deceptive machinations, the WTO has initiated a frontal attack on the sovereignty of the United States by attempting to strike down a U.S. law passed under the U.S. Constitution. 

Part V of Multi-part COOL Series: R-CALF USA Urges Aggressive Appeal of WTO’s Anti-COOL Ruling 

January 27, 2012 Billings, Mont. – Previous Parts I through IV of R-CALF USA’s multi-part country of origin labeling (COOL) series identified the first 12 examples of how the World Trade Organization (WTO) wrongfully and deceptively undercuts the United States’ country of origin labeling (COOL) law that informs U.S. consumers about where the food they purchase at their grocery stores was produced.  

Former GIPSA Administrator, J. Dudley Butler, to Speak to Cattle Producers Feb. 7, 2012, in O’Neill, Nebraska 

January 27, 2012 Billings, Mont. – J. Dudley Butler, former Administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), left his official USDA post on January 26. He will make his first public appearance at 7:30 p.m., at the O’Neill Community Center, O’Neill, Nebraska, on Tuesday, February 7.  

Part IV of Multi-part COOL Series: R-CALF USA Urges Aggressive Appeal of WTO’s Anti-COOL Ruling

January 26, 2012 Billings, Mont. – In Parts I through III of R-CALF USA’s multi-part country of origin labeling (COOL) series, R-CALF USA identified the first nine examples of how the World Trade Organization (WTO) wrongfully and deceptively undercuts the United States’ country of origin labeling (COOL) law within its convoluted, 233-page ruling that claims the U.S. violated its One-World Government obligations.   

Part III of Multi-part COOL Series : R-CALF USA Urges Aggressive Appeal of WTO’s Anti-COOL Ruling 

January 25, 2012 Billings, Mont. – In Parts I and II of R-CALF USA’s multi-part country of origin labeling (COOL) series, R-CALF USA identified the first six examples of how the World Trade Organization (WTO) wrongfully and deceptively undercuts the United States’ country of origin labeling (COOL) law within its convoluted, 233-page ruling that claims the U.S. violated its One-World Government obligations. 

Part II of Multi-part COOL Series: R-CALF USA Urges Aggressive Appeal of WTO’s Anti-COOL Ruling 

January 24, 2012 Billings, Mont. – In Part I of R-CALF USA’s multi-part country of origin labeling (COOL) series, R-CALF USA explained that it sent the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the Agriculture Secretary a comprehensive memorandum that identifies numerous arguments the United States could use to initiate an aggressive appeal of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) adverse ruling on the U.S. Cool law. Part I included four introductory arguments that R-CALF USA believes renders the WTO ruling absurd. 

R-CALF USA Urges Aggressive Appeal of WTO’s Anti-COOL Ruling: Part I of Multi-part COOL Series 

January 23, 2012 Billings, Mont. – On Friday, R-CALF USA sent a letter and memorandum to Ambassador Ron Kirk, United States Trade Representative (USTR), and to Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), urging the United States to “aggressively appeal the November 18, 2011, anti-COOL (country of origin labeling) ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO).”  

R-CALF USA’s Statement on Resignation of
GIPSA Administrator Dudley Butler 

January 19, 2012 Billings, Mont. – Please attribute the following statement to R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard. 

“Dudley Butler was appointed as the Administrator of GIPSA (the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration) to restore competition to our U.S. livestock markets that, through decades of neglect, have been all but captured by a handful of corporate meatpackers. His monumental and historic job was to reverse the ongoing and alarming exodus of independent livestock producers from our rural landscape – an exodus that is causing the hollowing out of Rural America.   

R-CALF USA’s Opposition to USDA’s Proposed Mandatory Animal Identification Rule:  Part I of VIII-Part Series

December 14, 2011 Billings, Mont. – As promised, R-CALF USA today launches an 8-day series of news releases to explain in detail many of the reasons our members vehemently oppose the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS’) proposed mandatory animal identification rule titled, Traceability for Livestock Moving Interstate (proposed rule).   

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